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PRES. HERVEY RAIT

U.P. BOB GILDER

TRES. ROBERT MALLOY
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ae “CORNER

SMSQ/E is looking good...thanks to Bob Dyl of IQLR, who came to my rescue for
ALTKEY operation in this New Operating System. Bob read my plea for help in the
last issue of LIST and he immediately telephoned Jochen Merz in Germany for the
solution for this particular problem. Jochen told Bob what all we have to do is
type in ."'HOT.LOAD' in the 5М50 BOOT file and the ALTKEYs will operate. Bob
called me with this information and it worked. Why wasn’t this in the manual?
Well I will venture a guess....the author assumed that all users of SMSO know
all there is to know about the Pointer System. Most software writers tend to
prepare manuals for the same level of competence that they are оп. “Any how, the
system is now up and running to my satisfaction. :

There із an added benefit when using The Editor SE with SMSQ; the screen appears
to be brighter and the character set appears оп the monitor screen to be larger
than normal. When I Boot up the Editor within SuperBASIC the characters are
much smaller that in SMSQ. Why, I really don't know?

WHile on the subject of software, several LIST members including myself have
found that several months before the end. of. 1994,. TASKMASTER insisted оп
updating the ‘date and time, regardless of how many times during the same day
TASKMASTER has been Booted up! We were used to skipping this initialization
Process because the Gold Card and Super Gold Card have their own 'Real-time
clock’ and TASKMASTER obliged us by accepting that time and date. Мо doubt, we
have been spoiled! Bob Malloy suggested that perhaps, the program had been set
up with October or November 1944 final date. If any one within our reading
range can come up with a fix for this problem, quite a few QL users would be
very grateful for a solution to an annoying problem.

I’ve been using DP’s Perfection Plus SE wordprocessor for the past month just to
get the feel of it апа as yet, I have not had an occasion to use it seriously.
It is quite obvious to me that Perfection has quite a few ОҒ the same ‘traits’
as The EDITOR SE has. Three manuals support Perfection; Perfection Word
Processor manual, The Perfection SE upgrade manual and the Perfection
Spellchecker manual. I printed out all of the manuals back-to-back using The
Editor.

The Perfection Printer data file allows the user to key in 64 additional printer
translates, even though there аге 13 Epson compatible translates on file:
Underline on/off, Italics on/off, Bold on/off Superscript on/off and Subscript
on/off as well as end of line and а few more. There are eight additional slots
for Strip strings which appear to provide Highlights for your text. I haven't
tried thess аз yet. I added 26 additional translates to the printer. driver
using a CTRL/Shift HIS oes for embedding the code sequence within text.

For example, the combination of CTRL/SHIFT/Q (ASCII 177) prints а 'PI' symbol оп
the screen. This key combination represents Letter Quality print. When you
want to modify a printer driver, LRUN the Perfection BOOT. А menu will appear
at the bottom of the screen ~ enter '6" for the printer driver program. Within
a few seconds the program requests the drive number of the current printer
driver. After entering the device name, it then requests if the printer driver
is PRINTER_DATA or another name. If you are using the default printer driver,
then press ‘Enter’ or if your printer driver name is different, then enter the
name of the printer driver and press ‘Enter’. Within a few seconds the printer
driver appears on the screen.

To enter a new translate, press F5 for the 2nd screen, then press F2 and scroll
down the translate area until you are at a numbered line without any codé, and
press ENTER. The entire translate for Letter Quality is entered as:
CTRL/SHIFT/Q,&27,x,&1 ENTER. The "'PI' character and all other numbers аге
displayed оп that particular Translate line. Note that the ampersand character
indicates numerical characters and the comma is a delimiter between each segment

of the translate. Letters are » accepted without the ampersand. Entering printer
translates is much easier than it was setting up translates for Quill.

On completion of entering translates into the PRINTER_DATA program, press ‘ESC’
another menu appears requesting а numerical input, such as ‘2’ or '5'. °2’ for
overwriting the old file and saving the new data or '5' to ESCape the program.
The Printer driver program multi-tasks with any other program you may currently
have in memory, so that if you ^ have to gather information from another program,
you can enter .'CTRL/C*' and go back and forth:

wa ad

Incidentally, Perfection has an Italic,: ‘Superscript - and “Subscript character set
fonts on the program disk! If you select either of these:fonts during a writing
session with Perfection, all characters will appear as they will Бе printed on
Paper: If you select Italics ON, all text will appear slanted on the screen
until you select Italics OFF, and the same with Superscript and Subscript.

Pressing F1 displays the HELP Screen. The HELP screen is a 'JOY' to behold! Lots
of information appears on the screen and instead of pressing Enter for
additional screens, you may either use the 'Down' cursor key to scroll through
the full length of the Help file or you may Page Down the file using the
combinatión of .*ALT/SHIFT/ADoun or Up* Cursor keys. AS the Help. is
scrolled, it will display an enormous amount of MACROS for just about any of the
"ғз” commands.

It take a little time to get used to Perfection, however, it із worth it! Аз I
stated earlier, if you have experience with The Editor, then this word processor
will be a 'cinch' to get going.

I have just received the latest Mechanical Affinity, 14 page catalog and it
із chocked full of QL.godies.. If you have been thinking about а purchasing а
Program and have been turned off about currency exchange for the purchase; Frank
and Carol Davis -most likely has this software package іп stock - all you have
to do is order it and send а check for the amount specified іп their catalog.
Incidentally, the ртісе,оҒ any item that Mechanical @ffinity sells, includes
postage and packing.

On page three of the Mechanic: Affinity catalog, I noticed that they are
selling NEW Z88 (lap top) computers, complete with new manuals, carrying case,
and а 128K extra RAM Pack for $230.00 US. Тһе Z88 comes with a built-in word
processor, database, diary, comms facility, an Eprom cartridge slot and built-in
Eprom burner to save programs on Eprom. It is expandible with two additional
КАМ slots.

Well, you might of guessed it! I decided to purchase the 288 package with а
QL-Z88 cable and the QLINK QL-Z88 software. I have been thinking about the 288
for some time, and thought about the 288 being an extension for the QL
computers. Since I've been retired, I spend several hours a day reading on my
front porch with my trusty companiion 'Gillie', my dog. .I usually have а pad
_and pen handy for jotting down thoughts оп paper while reading the newspaper or
magazines and books. Now when my 288 arrives, it will take the place of paper
written notes and at the end of the day, I will be able to transfer text from
the 288 to the QL. I also like the idea that Eproms. can be used for permanent
data. І am not sure if the Eprom із socketed- -or soldered to the cartridge.
However I am sure when the time comes to order an Eprom cartridge for the 288 I
will have the necessary information that I need.

If you have not received'a catalog from Mechanical Affinity, why not write to
them for а copy. Апа if you do request the catalog and you are not sure about
purchasing anything at the moment, why mot include а couple of postage stamps to
help defray the cost mailing the catalog. MECHANICAL AFFINITY, c/o Frank Davis,
513 EAST MAIN Street, PERU, INDIANA 46970 Telephone: 317-473-8031 or sent to:
MECHANICAL AFFINITY, с/о Pual Holmgren, 5213 WILTON WOOD Road, INDIANAPOLIS,
INDIANA 46254 Tel: 317-291-6002.

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Hi Res Graphics _ TEE

782268: тӛгебе 75206%

EI HI-RES ADDICTS! Many of you have
‘asked for a program that will give you, .
moving and eyer changing HI-RES display.
Well, this program will keep going for
bours with many bundreds of pleasing dis-
plays. The RANDOM number generators in
lines 70 to 110 accomplish the rsndom pat-
terns and the PLOT and DRAW commands in
Lines 180 to 195 keeps everything symmetri-

cal.

Have FUN !!

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Back-up Load or type in your favourite hex loader from memory, reset RAMtop to 17408 and
and create a Line 1 Rem statement with 128 reload the program.

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Burgess Hill, If your hex loader starts at Line 10, "^ program in listing 3. ]

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4 i А "If not create а dummy Line 10 — 10 Rem will with approx. 10 secs of tape running

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Interface а Centronics...

parallel output to an RS232 serial printer. ^
вин :
mif you built your computer system using boards and
peripherals from different manufacturers, you have
probably experienced the frustrations and confusion of
mixing and matching interfaces. This project meets the
real need to interface a Centronics parelle! output to an
85939 serial printer.

How the circuit works

Refer to the schematic diagram, Figure 1. Parallel data
from the printer controller is loaded into ІСІ, a 7415165
shift register by the STROBE signal if the BUSY line is
low. This BE signal also clears IC2, a 7415161

а 741574 flip-flop.
puise, IC3-b is

binary counter and presents
On the positive edge of the

FIG.1—SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM IS STRAIGHTFORWARD
used wire-wrap method, on ordinary perfboard. For better
schematic while reading “How it works" section.

-

with no critical Author
understanding,

clocked and the BUSY line to the printer controller goes
high. Since most parallel interfaces found today use
опу the STROBE! and BUSY Iines for handshaking, the
signal was not implernented іп this design. The
BUSY line will be kept high for a minimum of 10 clock
cycles for each byte transferred. During this interval, the
parallel data loaded will be clocked out serially
through IC3-a: first the start bit, then followed by 7 data
bits and ending with 9 stop bits (total of 10 bits). The

H-4
{

—————À———— — — M — — 9

PIN 3 RxD

ON 2 TxD
© OR OTHER NEGATIVE
VOLTAGE SOURCE

BUSY line can also be held high by the serial printer if
the printer buffer becomes full, that holds off any
further ciata transfer from the printer controller Many
serial printers use either pin 4 (RTS Request To Send))
or pin 20 (OTR Data Terminal Ready) to signal this
ffer ful сөлді "

То keep the overall parts count low, the 74HC132- . .,
CMOS) itt-tri

pulses occur asynchronously

(when the BUSY line is low) it is possible to have the
Positive of a clock pulse arrive just at the instant
the E pulse goes high. Unfortunately, that would
result in an unpredictable outcome. However, with the
Clock circuit shown, which is not the same as gating
the output of the oscillator a setup time is ensured
between the last STROBE pulse and the next clock
puise. Pull-up resistors were not used in interfacing LS
TTL to this CMOS, since with CMOS gates as the only
load on the LS TTL outputs, the LS TTL outputs will
generally rise up to one Voe below Vee.

Transistors Q1 end Q9 serve as voltage trasnslators,
and diode 01 keeps the base of Q1 from going into
negative or reverse breakdown.

Construction.

The iayout of the components is not critical. The
Prototype was built using wirewrap technique. The
RS232 receiver and driver components were all. ~
mounted оп a singe 16-pin component header and
plugged into а wirewrap socket. The whole circuit
board fits into a small chassis box (Radio Shack
970-235), with one end of the box for the parallel
interface connections and the other end for the RS939
interface connections. It is best to keep the parallel
interface cabie short and extend the 85939 interface
Cable to the length desired.

Do not substitute the 74HC139 with 741500, unless
you plan to design your own oscillator. The baud rate
Of this interface board сап be changed to suit your
printer or your inclination, However not much can be
Sained by running at a baud гате greater than 9400,
unless you have a very fast printer (240cps) ora print -
spooler since data transfer occurs concurrently with
Printing anyway | А

Note that some serial printers use an active-low
BUSY signal, іп which case, pin 1 of IC5 should be tied
to yround instead of Vcc.

Powering-up the interface
The 5-volt supply needed to run this board! can
usually be obtained from the Centronics end of the
interface. Check your printer controller documentation: -
to see if it is available at one of the connector pins. If
. not, it would be a simple matter to install a jumper а
“Кот the 5-volt source on the printer controller board `
to one of the connector pins. The negative supply (-9,
719, -15V. etc.) may be obtainable from the serial printer
end of the interface. Check the documentation for the

са

Printer; if pin 9 (TxD Transmtted Data) is unused and
remains at a negative R5939 voltage level when
Operating, then it may be usable as the negative
voltage source to drive the RxD (Received Data) line.
Apply power to the interface board. Check and
&djust VRI for oscillator frequency of 9400 Hz. This
frequency dices not have to be accurate, since each
Start bit synchronizes thé receiver clock of the UART/

АСА in the printer. Timing errors are non-curnulative:
9

If the printer prints the correct character each time,

ae Сталева ea a!
Stop bits on the printer are set as follows: 7 data bits,
по parity bit and 9 stop bits, which is the same as
setting for 7 data bits, mark parity bit and 1 stop bit.
The number of stop bits sent бу the interface board
сеп be increased from 2 to 4, if your printer lacks the
flexibility in data format settings, by simply moving the ..
wie homai to Q8 onilCê.. = j

If the printer prints okay initially, but starts to drop

"buffer) end Smith Corona TPI serial daisy wheel printer

(39-character buffer). Both have been working. p>

OSCAR ON FORTH

Orcar Sensabaugh

т Well, this: here із
орва. be fhe First
mnnua о: oiumn,
Whatever month Old
Chet gets around to
printin it, same
.month next year will
be the time to look
fer the Second Annual
etc., assumin I last
that long and learn
enought RTH in the
meantime to make it
worth the effort.

First off, I got
MALIGNE some advice to lay оп

ya. Do not, repeat,
DO NOT read no books on FORTH until you got
a FORTE kernel loaded into your system.
Then, and only then, get your librarian to
borrowin books on the subject so you can
find out which ones you want to buy fer
your permaent library.

That's my advice, take it or leave it.
What happened was, FORTH started out with
ood intentions ot transportability, stan-
rdization, and such. Then it went though
а few committees, got manhandled by more
several wildcat programmers, and now
comes in just dang near the same number of
versions, dialects, and spinoffs as any
other computer Hinge. І aint even. the
latest "standard", FORTH '83, and I aint so
dang shure I even want to. The committee
that set it up, according to what little I
have read on the subject, done went and
deleted stuff I was beginnin to feel confo-
rtable with, added a batch ot stuff I aint
80 dang certain I will ever understand, and
probabably burried the last shreads of
Ponpatiabilit , etc. That's my opinion here
and now. Maybe I could be persuaded over to
the other side of the fence by a good TYPE
Pir et fer the TIMEX machines, but only
it had a good users manual in tow.

Meanwhile, back in the jungle, us Timex
Freaks that have enough curiosity to ge
involved, and a highly developed sense o:
the rediculous parts of life, can do some
explorin, May even find somethin we like,
but stash a few Nerf toys along the trail,
they can be thrown without damage, while
computers have been know to break windows,
etc.

. I read some of the recommended books
first, and they (almost) made sense, or at
least seemed logical. So I took the plunge.
I ordered the first of what wab to be
Beveral FORTE:

хтовти for the *Sinclair 21-81% *Timex T/S
i3 1983 by M. Peake/A. Oscroft,
Exclusive distribution by HAWG WILD Soft-

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ware. >

irfi de 't know their ad ress by

EN you aint reading сти heir ri) $
I load -XFORTH and found out

righty, id gated that I pris remember as

much of Brodie, Scanlon, et nn asl
thought I did. Remember, А FORTH word" can
be any dang thing you can enter, and a

FORTH program can execute in just about the
time it takes to call its name! I give пу
favorite librarian a hurry-up call for AN
book on FORTE, and while waitin I kept
tryin. Musta done Brodies а th
sand times, it being the example given in
the XFORTH manual Т х

І didn't dream up апу world-shakin pri
rams durin the time I was waitin fer the
books to come in, but I did develop ЕҢ
instinct fer usin the B ym mand
time to keep EVERYTHING from flyin off into
the wild biue gonder, leavin a émpty RAM
and a full boob tube.

Just betore I committed suicide, some of
the books started comin in, and best of
all, HAWG WILD started publishing the
XFÓRTE XCHANGE where users could ask

i

dule, and now is show: support for other
FORTH programs. Just today I did a fix from
XFORTH XCHANGE on a fig-but we will get

that later, but I better mention right
that "XPORTH XCHANGE" is FREE to the
rchaser ot ANY FORTH KERNAL from HAWG 3
and aint available to nobody else at am
price. This here is a EXCLUSIVE Newsletter!

To summarize on XFORTE, it is a FORTH
479 sub-set customized to the 2Х-81 family.
It may be a bit difficult for the FOR
novice to master, FORTH "words" in the
kernal often being
Timex keyboard t| » Sanlon, et
al. А seasoned FORTH programmer сап probab-
ly do amazing things wit! .

I gotta add in another 2-bits worth of
comment here, I been gettin FORTH DIMEN-
SIONS, DR. DOBBS JOURNAL, BYTE, and others.
They got plenty on FORTH, but most of them
forgot there is small systems like Tinex
out here in the boondocks. So etforts like
HAWG WILDs XFORTH XCHANGE are important to ;
us, also any similiar publications for
other small syste Such publications
really. do. depend o put from the avérage.
user. "Joe Average" may not be able to.

nothing, but when he inputs e proble&
where maybe somebody else already knows, ar
4 , V joe" has started 40

can dream up a
thin

А som
that many can benefit from. 5

Е on th the next FORTH:
C) 1984 by E.A. Worden

Exculsive distribution same as above

anusl includes Editor User Guide

b
байды of FORTH Interst Group, 7.53]

8 TFIG-FORTH. Manual
ar a 226" bar the tape loge on
as 1.1 E it works great... vith a
couple ree minor regervations ІЗІ get
too . Just like the 2068 is more ela-

: 1000, fin 2068 FIG FORTH

ther:
tet in Fic-Fo КТЕ т TR ue standards.

The 2068 FIG-FORTH manual is very well
arranged. The first section gives loading
instructions, few callanegus ҚЫ
notes and lists а few non-standard "words"
Next section contains a FIG-FORTH GLOSSARY
which is followed by Bill Stoddards brief
pot well written Editor User M This

turn is iollowed by an Editor Gio:
White I would prefer an expanded
а secuion of мог! examples,
thing more helpful to a Bovice, the
manua: is adequate for one with а bit
of PORTE, experience. (I was able to use it,

ігі

wasn't I

The Votes h excellent stability.
Screen had seemed a bit slow (for

RTH, M is) but I had not gorp .
Бота. else did, however, and Ed Wordens
fix ap ared in the curent XEO RTE XCHANGE.
Thats the fix I ntioned Қ. ier phe
column, and it does speed u ings
apparent ill effects in өз ЕЗ nr
partmnt, thus taking care of one o i

I gant gom to te admit it (yet) that "po RTH*

and "frie ал? това ів e same sentence,
гасе MONC 1 PH is real picky aboyt
ing a. d proper, and it

dang easy to врасе or get a double
strike with а hi key on the unm

2068. But iffen FO ТЕ EA be rated on the
l-to-10 friendly scale, I'd give this one
about a 6 er 39; оог don't get а
prompt on the -screen command, the

10
Bere ns load ok. citt was терде, опе g£
the "reservations") Fact is, i
lems with the usual ЯЫ he ‘fol
the book and things came out right.

т reckon the only real villian іп this
story is that blank-blank cotton pickin
cursor. Trying to delete and type over a
oofed line sometimes looks good on-screen,
ut when 7% enter the corrected line it
comes bac ou with some cursors that
had hid out, plus, of course that famous
ues n mark which FORTH uses as shorthand
A ih. "What is this supposed to mean, stu-
id
оь vell, on to another FORTH: WC

E ERSOFT FORTE for TIMEX 2068 |
ABERSOFT 1984 P

HAWG WILD scores again!
this little fig could

I got to admit,

turn out to be зу favor ikel It is a conver-
sion from SPECTR UM, and very vell done,
even if the little шап doe Ry SPACE,
ER. mov and then instead imer

iev be

s ова Je 14
the ru us cone jands

stalled, T

Terror) codes.

- dee LEM githou h a is. “cra d
Pestis facie ing ub cs and
Ere rives Ы шау вес
Reno си
бас temptation to

Son во at these t а TH

arison
ріш TES is ris st в, of che tables ES i
believe it would be pointless. Both are
рохате] FORTES. While ABERSOFT шау вос Бе be
a , it is ahead in the
Bandera Timex) department, ating. ES
friendlier" at least for the деуісе, Тһе
more experienced FO 219, i mig ht pret ег to
take Wordens 2068 FIG: RTE and his own

rapnics bits to dpi тон bulary. 4
Ееее % either put "rete nal
the beau! орн take your
EN ‘whatever. may be, ‘and ao naue ЕЗ

wi ever г memory are
and Smart enough to dol 7 кед

One small vade d at

BERSOFT: Is that

awkward ог sa ones extensions
really
And th ipe of a l nature:
leioun, еве " seve, POTES are а
8 ou odds dang few program
are ае 187 grant portable bees Itb
vithout h ot patchwork. Во ‘mech d =
commit bi standards the computer
world ot today! On the other hand, who
wants to live in a world of clones of
clones?
Threes on ya all!

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